In the
Society for Creative Anachronism, a "
House" is a
semiofficial association of individual
SCA members. "Houses" are like small
clubs or sub-organizations within the SCA; each tends to have its own theme involving the
time period and
region from which its members'
SCA personas originate. Each House also tends to perform or be involved in a specific kind of activity -- some Houses specialize in
brewing,
cooking or
craftwork; others specialize in the SCA
war games --
heavy fighting,
light fighting,
archery and so on.
Here are a few sample houses, ones that I have dealt with here in the Kingdom of An Tir: